~Warmth For Those Of Us In The Deep Freeze~

   From atop Mount Washington: Setting Suns Looking West During Winter Solstice (left). Spring/Fall Equinox (center) and at Summer Solstice (right) ~ Photos Not Taken By Me

 

Below Snowy Owl Sleeping at Nubble Light. Photo Credit: Kirk Rogers

   

Spent this warm, sunny New Years Day in my beloved Maine.  Photo from my camera of a Snowy Owl sitting on the fence behind the Nubble Lighthouse House. A professional photog there took my point and shoot camera and touched the lens to his scope after hearing me bemoan the fact that my cheap digital camera could NEVER catch her.  According to his scope/sighter, she was "93 yards" away.  Such wonderful and lucky happenstance.  She is a beauty!

http://www.kiroastro.com/birds/owl_snowy/

Photos of same bird taken by a professional photographer that day on link above

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

*Whimsy Is Healing*

Yes it is :-)